Mrkr vs Matomo.
Matomo is the most complete privacy-analytics product there is, and you can run it yourself. Mrkr is smaller, faster to stand up, and cookieless without configuring anything.
What is the difference between Mrkr and Matomo?
Matomo is a full analytics suite with heatmaps, form analytics, A/B testing, custom reports, and tag management, available as cloud or as GPL software you host yourself. Mrkr is a hosted, lightweight tool with analytics, replay, funnels, cohorts, and revenue attribution, cookieless by default. Matomo has more features. Mrkr has less setup.
This is the one comparison on the site where the competitor has the longer feature list and it is not close. What Mrkr trades that breadth for is a sub-6 kB tracker, a dashboard that is useful on day one, and a default configuration that does not need a consent banner.
Useful on the first afternoon.
One script tag, and the overview fills with visitors, sources, pages, devices, and countries. No tag manager, no plugin selection, no goal wizard. Matomo gets to a better place eventually. Mrkr gets to a good enough place immediately.
Where Mrkr is better.
Cookieless by default
Matomo sets cookies unless configured otherwise. Mrkr writes nothing persistent to the device out of the box.
Weight and speed
Under 6 kB against a much larger tracker, and Mrkr measures your Core Web Vitals too.
Adblock resistance, managed
Ingest serves from your own subdomain. On Matomo that is a proxy you maintain.
Nothing to operate
Self-hosted Matomo is a database, an app, a cron job, and an upgrade path. Mrkr is a script tag.
Side by side.
| Mrkr | Matomo Cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Privacy analytics with replay | Privacy analytics suite |
| Session replay | Yes, on every paid plan | Yes |
| Heatmaps | No | Yes |
| Funnels | Yes | Yes |
| Cohorts and retention | Yes | Yes |
| Revenue attribution | Yes | Yes |
| Cookieless | Yes by default, cookie mode optional per site | Configurable, cookies on by default |
| Self-hosting | No | Yes |
| Free plan | No, 14-day trial | No, 21-day trial |
| Entry paid price | $5/mo, 100K pageviews, session replay included | ~EUR 19/mo, 50K hits |
| Form analytics | No | Yes |
| A/B testing | No | Yes |
| Tag manager | No | Yes |
| Custom report builder | No | Yes |
| Tracker size | Under 6 kB gzipped | Substantially larger |
| Cookieless without configuration | Yes | No, cookies are on by default |
| First-party proxy on your own subdomain | Yes, managed | Possible, you configure it |
Matomo Cloud details checked against the vendor's own pricing and feature pages on 2026-08-24. Where a vendor does not publish a fixed list price, this table says how they charge rather than guessing a number. Vendors change packaging often, so confirm before you buy.
Compare them side by side
The live demo is the whole Mrkr product on a populated dataset. Open it next to a Matomo instance and the difference in surface area is obvious in both directions.
Open the live demo
Where Matomo is genuinely better.
Breadth
Heatmaps, form analytics, A/B testing, tag management. Mrkr has none of those and never will.
You can host it yourself
GPL software on your own disk. Mrkr fails that outright: proprietary and hosted only.
Maturity
Shipping since 2007, with the plugins, translations, and public-sector references to match.
Data model
Matomo keeps raw hit-level data. Mrkr stores pre-aggregated counters, faster but less flexible.
Questions, answered.
Keep reading
- Mrkr vs Plausible
The other established cookieless option.
- Nine Google Analytics alternatives
Where Matomo and Mrkr both sit in the field.
- Mrkr vs Umami
The other self-hostable comparison.
- How analytics works without cookies
Why the default matters more than the option.
- Analytics that survive adblockers
How the first-party proxy works.
- Open the live demo
The whole product, no signup.
Your first visitor is already here.
Drop in the script and watch them land. It takes about a minute.